'Environmental disaster' fears after one billion plastic pellets enter River Tyne

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The incident has been dubbed Europe’s worst ever nurdle pollution incident. On 19 July tonnes of tiny beads, known as nurdles, entered the River Tyne when a vessel struck a shipping container in South Shields

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